THE AVA in partnership with Spier

Elgin Rust presents Judgement, Uitspraak 2011 Case No. 001/05/2008 in the Main gallery. Judgement, Uitspraak 2011 Case No. 001/05/2008 is a collaborative group show developed out of and in some ways concluding part of Elgin Rust's MFA redress1-un-dressed, Adv. Alice presents J v JR 2010. This project investigates processes of judicial and aesthetic redress to offer fresh perspectives on the victim within the criminal justice system. For Judgement, Uitspraak 2011 Case No. 001/05/2008, the fourteen different responses by participating artists are juxtaposed in relationship to aspects of Rust's redress2-un-dressed, Adv. Alice presents J v JR 2010.

Displayed alongside the above, Rust presents a series of large photomontages and a installation of evidence in the form of Das Narrenschiff 2010, which is assembled using material collected from the Cape Town courts. In this manner, the collaboration does not attempt to offer an undifferentiated pluralism, but rather, a judgment which is based on the most rigorous respect for difference.

With participating artists:
Paul Birchall, Kitty Dörje, Claire Jorgensen, Dave Robertson, Max Wolpe, Ian Grose, Gretchen Van der Byl, Cara van der Westhuizen, Natasha Norman, Sonja Rademeyer, Isabelle Grobler, Bridget Baker, Dale Washkansky, Nina Liebenberg.

WALK ABOUT FOR Judgement, Uitspraak 2011 Case No. 001/05/2008
11 AM SATURDAY, 30 APRIL 2011

Dillon Marsh presents Lay of the Land in the Long Gallery. Marsh documents unusual objects within their immediate environment, picking them out of a landscape into which they might otherwise blend in. These include cell phone towers disguised as trees, titled Invasive Species, telephone poles that have been claimed as nesting perches, and trees that have been permanently bent by persistent winds titled, South Easter. In each of these series Marsh has chosen objects that can be found in multitude within their environment, and by photographing the individual examples depicts a family of objects in a series of photographs.

Cinga Samson presents Rusting Iron, a series of mixed media paintings in the Artsstrip. Rusting Iron refers to the slow corrosion of colonial power and Apartheid systems. Samson offers insight into the general perceptions of power reflected within our society at large, unpacking history and personal experience with an emotionally charged use of colour and paint application.

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